Week 16 Studs & Duds + Monday Punday, The Owl and the Andy - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/27

The actual playoffs. Yeah, the playoffs. The reason they activated him now is not because he's actually ready. The NFL, you need three weeks on the 53-man roster to toll a season and for your pension. And so they kind of came out and said, like, this is actually really cool of them to have him on the 53-man roster for these final three weeks. I don't expect him ready before the playoffs. We've talked in the past about the brutal nature of Achilles injuries for running backs.

literally never been an example of one coming back until this year where Deonta Foreman, and granted it took him several years and kind of being out of the league and coming back. But he has proved that you can do it. And now Camakers, I think we'll see him in the playoffs this year. But so James Robinson, he tore the Achilles. He's going to be, he'll be out for a while. This is going to be the Deonta Foreman.

pathway for him, unfortunately, because of the later round draft pick. They have Travis E.TN. The injury at the end of the year. Like, we're not going to see him at the beginning of the next season. No. He doesn't have a contractual obligation that's going to force him back on the field. Right. I mean, do you guys agree with that? Like, this is going to be a really, this is almost a dynasty killer for him. It is. It very well could be the end of James Robinson having fantasy relevance for.

ever that wouldn't shock me at all like you said low draft capital no draft capital um and uh the fact that there is a first round great talented running back there he he's not going to be rushed back he's not going to be needed back immediately and then there's no incentive or you know that that uh investment that requires you to rely on james robinson i mean the team will have to prepare

to be without him. And then as they make that preparation, he's going to have a hard time coming back. Which if you aren't in a keeper league, he probably is rostered in a keeper league. You know, people are more savvy to these moves these days. But if Travis E.T.N happens to be just sitting there on the waiver wire, I mean, his status now as the projected leadback, it's much more clear, where if Robinson had made it through the season healthy.

we were going to have this debate all off season. Is it Robinson? Is ETN going to take the job? It's now ETN's job to start the season. Yeah. And on a personal level, just devastating for James Robinson, somebody who who beat all the odds being an undrafted star. And, you know, if Philip Lindsay had torn his Achilles in Denver, you never, it was it, you know. So Miles Sanders also fractured his hand in this game, which was.

You know, devastating for fantasy players and for the Eagles. And Jordan Howard sustained a stinger in the game. There's a chance that Miles could play through the injury after undergoing more tests, but it seems unlikely. Clyde Edwards-Alair was ruled out in the second half with a shoulder injury. I believe I saw the MRI was negative, though. The X-ray was negative. And he's going to get an MRI. So TBD on C-EH. Nice. I was hoping you'd go there. Darrell Henderson.

Knee sprain. He played one play, basically, one touch. It was a real nice run. It was. And, you know, talking about needing Cam Acres. If Daryl's not available, which he's, that's his permanent status pretty much. You're going to need somebody other than Sony who's been playing well. And then Adam Thielen spent most of the game running plays and then acting super hurt and then came back in and then left.

super hurt again. So, you know, counting on him in week 16 is not going to be a thing. You can't do it. If you were able to overcome the feeling injury and you're still, you know, playing, you cannot put him in your lineup the rest of the season. Now is today's news notes brought to you by Sleeper, of course, the leader in breaking news alerts. Even if you have to have only one eye open when you get the alert, it is still important to get the alert. So grab the Sleeper app and join their channel.

This week's fantasy stud muffins. All right. The good, right? This is the good. Mike, this may be the greatest start of the week and the history of the starts of the week. And we needed some of that. Joe Burrow, Joe Burrow is awesome. Like as a personality, Joe Burrow is awesome. And as a quarterback, he proved.

that he can play with a chip on his shoulder. I don't know if you saw the comments from the opposing coach. From Wink? Yeah, where they basically just said, hey, I'm not ready to give him a gold jacket just yet. Let's not talk about him being great. He's good. And then he went out and put up 525 passing yards, four touchdowns. Almost five. Yeah, he had one called back. And it was...

I mean, this was unbelievable. And when I saw this game, let me just give you my reaction. It was the Bengals should lead this division or be in competition for it for a long time. The T. Higgins, Jamar Chase, unstoppable combination. It's nasty. Tyler Boyd is the perfect wide receiver three. Right. Like Tyler Boyd is nothing special. But if you're talking about your third wide receiver, that's you build.

You build your third wide receiver to be Tyler Boyd. Yeah, it's just wild. It's so impressive. And I know we'll talk about the wide receivers later, but my goodness, when you can have the level of bravado, I would say, that's not even the right word, confidence. Joe Burrow plays confidently at quarterback, which means he's willing to do the things that we've always said people should do. When Larry Fitzgerald at the peak of his career, hat was double covered, you don't care.

You throw the ball. He's open double covered. Yeah. And Des Bryant was like that. You know, obviously Randy Moss was like that. And not to, you know, conflate Randy Moss and T. Higgins. But there are players that you just need to throw the ball to them and not be afraid. And Joe Burroughs made of that kind of mental fortitude. So, yeah, I mean, what a game. Yeah, they look fantastic. Hayden Winks did tweet out. He said Joe Burrow becomes the third quarterback ever.

to have 525 plus passing yards and four passing touchdown. So that is the level of history. If you played Joe Burrell, congratulations. If you played against them, I'm very sorry. Yeah, and Field Gates tweeted out. The Bengals are now the first team in NFL history to have a 4,000-yard passer, a thousand-yard rusher, and 2,000-yard receivers all age 25 or younger. So when Andy's talking about, they should really be competing here for a while. That's hot. Congratulations, Cincinnati.

was back. He heard the slanderous, the slanderous things people were saying, maybe they may have been said on this show. I will not, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Well, look, we did, when it came down to it on the show, Mike, when it was this player or Dak, it was always Dak. So, and it was because of this. It was like, it wasn't so much that you had confidence that it would happen, but that it could happen. And that can do something that.

you know, a middling quarterback in a nice streaming matchup can't do. Yeah, it was 330 yards, four passing touchdowns. And it's actually, it was unfortunate. Like, it was unfortunate that that's all he got to do. Because if you didn't watch the game last night, I believe it was 42 to 7 and halftime, it was 40 something. And like the game was already done because Washington.

just fully face planted. They let the game get out of their hands immediately. But, I mean, it's hard to complain with 330 and 4. But it's just like, oh, it could have been more. The only way you can complain is if you were playing against Joe Burrow. That's not fair. But those two guys hopefully had them. And then you moved on in your fantasy playoffs. And for a second consecutive year, Josh Allen had no problems with New England in New England.

And they got the victory. He went 30 for 47. He used Isaiah McKinsey to disintegrate their defense. Yes, he did. It was craziness, McKenzie. And then he's got Atlanta now. Atlanta and the Jets, if you play into the unfortunate week 18 and you have Josh Allen, I mean, you're good to go.

Aaron Rogers was awesome again. You know, three touchdowns, only 200 yards. This is efficient Rogers. Has Minnesota next week. Congrats to those that have Rogers. Tyler Murray. Yeah, Mahomes was really good. It was nice to see him. You know, you worry without Travis Kelsey. Is he going to get it done? And their, their ancillary wide receivers really stepped up, broke a lot of taxes. Yeah, Mr. Pringle. Mr. Pringle got it. He popped. And like.

So, I mean, that fruit was on the ground, Jason. Yeah. Kyler is really on this list? I mean, he had 245 and one through the air and he had 74 yards rushing. So you, I was surprised he was on the list because we are the harshest critics. But statistically he was, he was all right. Wow. I guess quarterback rushing is, in fact, very powerful. Yeah, he's sitting at the quarterback six with, uh,

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Fantasy running backs, you know, there's a saying in fantasy. And the saying is that if Justin Jackson, Rex Burkett, and Sonny Michelle don't lead the way, you don't want to play. That's right. And luckily, they led the way because, look, Justin Jackson, this was a opportunity situation. You play Houston, no Austin Echler, no Mike Williams. And so you become.

The running bank, and guess what? You become the wide receiver as well because he scored twice on the ground, went eight for 98 through the air. And this is one of the best spots we can remember. Yeah, it was a giant sigh of relief because by the time Sunday morning rolled around and I'm doing Sunday live, like I knew Justin Jackson would be the question of the day. And we got to the halfway point. And I'm telling Brooks, I'm like,